David Stovall: The Facts and Failures of Educational Policy

Education and schools have failed to live up to their full potential for the communities they serve.

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April 26, 2012

Schools have morphed from extensions of a community into centers that more closely resemble factories and prisons, says David Stovall, associate professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. What will it take to confront this reality, instead of distancing ourselves from it, as we are now?

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